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Gov Oyebanji of Ekiti State
Ekiti State Government has issued a seven-day ultimatum to the Benin Electricity Distribution Company (BEDC), to restore electricity supply to the Ago Aduloju community, or face litigation.
The state government, in a letter to the Coordinator, BEDC Electricity Ekiti Limited, through the Commissioner for Infrastructure and Public Utility, Prof. Mobolaji Aluko and the Attorney General, Mr. Dayo Apata (SAN), dated August 8, 2025, said failure to restore electricity supply to the community three months after was a breach of agreement and duty.
Aluko and Apata, according to a statement in Ado Ekiti on Sunday, noted that “Issues such as money owed to BEDC/BEDC Electricity Ekiti Limited, a schedule of paying back the money, de-bulking of the community transformer to allow for individual prepaid metering and community payments for meters and their installation had been discussed and agreed upon by the parties.”
The state government expressed regret that the Ago Aduloju community had continued to be deprived of electricity supply for three months due to the failure of BEEL to restore the electricity supply for ‘various untenable reasons’ and after many fruitless appeals and visits by the parties to the DISCO’s headquarters.
It stated, “BEDC Electricity Ekiti Limited has an obligation to energise the community, being one of the distribution company’s primary responsibilities and services to the public, coupled with the agreements reached at the meeting of 8th May, 2025 between representatives of the company and the community”.
The state government added that the company’s “persistent refusal to restore electricity supply to the community is a clear breach of agreement and its duty. This has led to untold hardship for dwellers in the community because of the persistent total blackout being experienced there”.
Consequent upon this, the state government said it had issued “a seven-day ultimatum to the BEDC Electricity Ekiti Limited to renew its stand and restore electricity supply to the community, failure of which we shall have no option but to ventilate our grievances in the court of law.” (The PUNCH)
